How you all doing with your exercise and nutrition during the isolation and social distancing stage of this pandemic?

Here is my breakdown...

Food:My family is staying home. We live in an area where it is possible to go for walks without getting close to others, so I've gone out with them to walk around the neighborhood. We have plenty of food, but I find that I need to be flexible with my diet and I am not getting to eat as much meat and vegetables as I'm use to. Being satiated and eating healthy will probably get more difficult as we adopt to eating more traditional staple foods. Those foods are healthy, but I find it hard to eat them in moderation as someone with obesity in my history.

Exercise:In the last couple of weeks I've been doing calisthenics and working with a home set of dumbbells. The amount of weight to move is limited, but I've been doing more reps to make up for it -- not idea, but its working. The higher reps feel kinda good as I get more of a pump than I did with the heavier weight at the gym.

Food: Ordering bulk fresh, nutritious "meal prep to go" items from a local business that caters to the fitness crowd. Handling the containers as infectious until microwaved. Amazon NOW supplies to supplement.

Fitness: Power rack is in the garage. Miles of running trails in the neighborhood. Should be good to go!

I have been steadily increasing exercise over the last 2 months, for a short walk every day, to a long walk, to now pulling in workouts swimming and cycling. It is all at the pace of Sue and Lucy, so no muscle work specifically, and a lot of time spent on stretching. Some of that has also been heavy gardening, sawing, pulling down an old shed (Its a heavy one, it was an old railway carriage).

I can say I had not realised how lethargic I had become. I cannot say I am fully back on form, but after 2 months, I am getting there. The break from work has been good for me. I have only just started spending time stretching in the morning, instead of rushing off to do the first job.

The key is going to be how we all maintain this going forward, and as I need to work still, I am not sure how I am going to do it.... which I know is not a great start.

How are all of your commitments going? I hope you are finding this experience an uplifting one, on top of all of the worry that comes with it, and snatching some Magic moments from it.

Had a bit of a scare earlier this year when i used a peak flow meter, and i've been exercising at least 3 times a week since then, rowing, cycling (machines) and weights. It's basically a habit now. Loving the weights, haven't done them regularly for long before.

I've been doing some sort of exercise daily. I have my regular weight training I do four times a week. I'm working with limited weights so my reps are quite high, but I've found that even with light weights at 25 reps my muscles will let me know they are working. My 15 year old daughter is doing some youtube fitness regiment with a lot of floor exercise, I am doing a few minutes of them with her on my off days. There is a large church parking lot next to my house, yesterday I took my eight year old there so she could ride her bike; I road a skateboard along with her -- that was fun.

One thing I didn't do enough of in the gym is stretching mostly due to not wanting to touch the floor at the gym too much. Since I am now working out at home I've upped my stretching quite a bit.

I've upped my sun exposure, trying to get 15 minutes or so a day to keep my vitamin D up. I've been taking D supplements over the winter, but I do notice that the sun makes me feel better physically and mentally.

>pain

I am not convinced people need to feel pain to be healthy. Yes, to be very fit one will have to have pain in one way or another, but to just be an active healthy person moderate exercise and eating healthy is all that's needed; someone can just go outside and hike an hour or do some mild calisthenics and walks a few times a week. Really, any type of moderate physical labor will keep most people healthy for most of their life provided that their nutrition is right and they don't have any other health wrecking habits.

I've been doing some sort of exercise daily. I have my regular weight training I do four times a week. I'm working with limited weights so my reps are quite high, but I've found that even with light weights at 25 reps my muscles will let me know they are working. My 15 year old daughter is doing some youtube fitness regiment with a lot of floor exercise, I am doing a few minutes of them with her on my off days. There is a large church parking lot next to my house, yesterday I took my eight year old there so she could ride her bike; I road a skateboard along with her -- that was fun.

One thing I didn't do enough of in the gym is stretching mostly due to not wanting to touch the floor at the gym too much. Since I am now working out at home I've upped my stretching quite a bit.

I've upped my sun exposure, trying to get 15 minutes or so a day to keep my vitamin D up. I've been taking D supplements over the winter, but I do notice that the sun makes me feel better physically and mentally.

>pain

I am not convinced people need to feel pain to be healthy. Yes, to be very fit one will have to have pain in one way or another, but to just be an active healthy person moderate exercise and eating healthy is all that's needed; someone can just go outside and hike an hour or do some mild calisthenics and walks a few times a week. Really, any type of moderate physical labor will keep most people healthy for most of their life provided that their nutrition is right and they don't have any other health wrecking habits.

Agreed about no need for pain, slow build up is good, and yes good diet. I'm worrying about how long it's taking my short daily routine to get easier it's been over 2 months and only feels slightly easier, haven't increased reps. Must be age or cancer, i can joke about that coz i'm a smoker ;+}